Illness	Number of cases
Varicose veins of lower extremities (I83.9)	132
Atherosclerosis (I70.22)	86
Atherosclerosis - Atherosclerosis of native arteries of other extremities with ulceration (I70.25)	40
Atherosclerosis (I70.24)	39
Type 2 diabetes mellitus not insulin dependent from the start (E11.74)	33
Occlusion and stenosis of precerebral arteries not resulting in cerebral infarction (I65.2)	32
Atherosclerosis (I70.23)	30
Erysipelas (A46)	29
Complications of cardiac and vascular prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T82.8)	26
Chronic renal failure - Chronic kidney disease stage 5 (N18.5)	24

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Insertion or exchange of a tube (catheter) in a large vein (8-831.0)	229
Other operations on blood vessels (5-399.2)	153
X-rays of the arteries in the legs with contrast medium (3-607)	144
Surgical procedure to remove varicose veins from the leg (5-385.2)	139
Revision operations (5-983)	131
(9-984.7)	105
X-rays of the arteries in the pelvis with contrast medium (3-605)	102
Treatment of a vessel with access via a tube (catheter) (8-836.0s)	85
Surgical procedure to remove varicose veins from the leg (5-385.70)	83
Surgical procedure to remove varicose veins from the leg (5-385.4)	81

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1800

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ25
CQ01

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
73	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
42	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
27	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Theorie: Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe in Mönchengladbach Praxis: Radiologische Klinik des St. Bernhard Hospitals, Nuklearmedizinische Gemeinschaftspraxis in Duisburg sowie die Gemeinschaftspraxis für Strahlentherapie in Duisburg/Moers
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)